Right now I can't access my xbmc box but I'm a user of the T! skin (recent svn) and a Motorola Droid.

When I use the Android remote in remote mode, fanarts show up! But when I browse my music library right on the phone and pick a song, XBMC does not show the fanart. With fanart I mean the background pictures in this video:

The remote works like a normal IR remote or keyboard or whatever you wanna use to send keys to XBMC.
So you select the music you wanna play and hit the "OK" button and it is as if you where just clicking enter. T! skin then starts a) the music and b) the fanart slideshow. Don't know how they do it.

The library mode is working different from our side. We get a list of what is in the library by querying the database of xbmc through the webserver (or httpapi). Playing music works the same way, we send xbmc the command to play this and that. Everything is working without ever knowing what skin you are using. So we can't "fix" a "bug" on our side that is no bug.

ronie Wrote:if i'm correct you are talking about showing fanart for the currently playing artist, right?

this feature was added not too long ago and had several limitations in the beginning.
whether it worked properly mainly depended on how/where you started the song.
as a reference, see my trac ticket from a back then:http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/7902

the problem with starting a song from the recently added on the home screen is that xbmc doesn't set the MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image) label.
most likely a similar issue exists when using your remote in library mode.

i have no clue if it's even possible to fix either one of those, but one of the xbmc devs should be able to tell.

Is it just a feature of the T! skin or xbmc itself? If it is just the skin we would have to check what skin is active... Plus I don't see if this is available through httpapi (which we currently use)... Plus there is much more work to do...

But feel free to add an enhancement request to our issue tracker. And maybe the setting will be available through json rpc.